Here are some changes we made to the website in October.
Week 40
- Updated Participate page with new studies, an infographic, and a submission form.
- Update Infographics.
- Update Performative Neurodiversity (Neurodiversity Lite).
- Published With bans on phones and social media, we are disarming students who refuse to swallow the bunting.
- Updated Gender Copia and Bricolage with sections on “The Neurodiversity Smorgasboard”, “Using a Rubik’s Cube as a Metaphor for Intersectionality”, and “Avoiding Essentialism”.
- Updated Hearing Voices.
- Published Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for September 2024.
- Published Stimpunks.org Changelog for September 2024.
- Updated Direct Support to Individuals with a study on UBI and education. Added some headings and a featured image while in there.
- Updated our front page with The Neurodiversity Smorgasbord: An Alternative Framework for Understanding Differences Outside of Diagnostic Labels — Lived Experience Educator.
- Updated Transcendent Thinking with more from Mary Helen Immordino-Yang.
- Updated Solarpunk. Reordered, added sections, ran auto translations.
- Published Monotropic Time.
- Updated Epistemic Injustice with quotes from Full article: Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice.
Week 41
- Added Russian, Urdu, Bengali, Portuguese, Japanese to our list of languages and updated all 14 translations for the front page, templates, and template parts. We now cover the 10 most popular languages and then some.
- Updated layout of Creed.
- Roughed in a first draft Manifesto.
- Updated Education Access: We’ve Turned Classrooms Into a Hell for Neurodivergence with a quote from Return to School | GROVE. Paired that with an “Autism + environment = outcome” lilypad.
- Updated Neuroception and Sensory Load: Our Complex Sensory Experiences with a “A Brief Review of the Senses” section and a “Resources” section.
- Worked on C+C+W for NQLS, adding a few examples.
- Updated With bans on phones and social media, we are disarming students who refuse to swallow the bunting. with a quote form Danah Boyd.
- Updated Welcome Aboard: Start Here with the latest updates to our onboarding process.
- Published Bookmarks to showcase our bookmarks collected in Raindrop.io.
- Added a button for Find a Helpline to our Coping page.
- Published Cavendish Space, NeuroTribes, and Steve Silberman.
- Updated 🎸 A Public Service Announcement… with Guitar.
- Published Monotropic Time.
- Published Autistic Chronophobia Theory.
- Published Design Challenge: Neurodiversity Punk Hedgehog Mascot Inspired by Wapuu.
- Published Highlights.
Week 42
- Updated Communication Stack and Software to reflect our latest tooling.
- Published macOS Keyboard Flow.
- Create conference area in gather.town. Explore it for a future event.
- Updated Gallery layout.
- Added a “Communities” bookmarks folder for collecting Communities to join.
- Updated Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges with new sections on scientism and epistemic injustice.
- Updated Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery? with layout changes.
- Updated the Practitioners list on our Coping page as well as our Practitioners bookmarks folder.
- Updated Flexibility with quotes from Spaces and Structures, Part One: The Hope | Human Restoration Project | Mal Radagast.
- Updated Mutual Aid: Real Help Against the Onslaught with quotes and layout changes.
- Updated Community Care with layout changes.
- Updated Chronic Constellation to add sections.
- Published Object Permanence.
- Published Autistic Joy.
- Published Music.
- Published Limerence.
- Published Unmet Needs.
Week 43
- Updated ⛑ Mutual Aid: Real Help Against the Onslaught with a video on disability benefits from Last Week Tonight.
- Published Map of Monotropic Experiences.
- Updated Autistic with layout changes and conversion of some embedded Tweets into block quotes.
- Updated Neuroqueer Learning Spaces Manifesto with a revised introduction and layout changes.
- Updated The Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions with layout changes and conversion of embedded tweets into block quotes. Since this is our most popular page, I’m going to queue it up for translation in 14 languages. Before we spend that money, give it a look through. How’s it look? How’s it read? What should change?
- Published We Ain’t Special.
- Updated pages to work around WordPress padding changes.
- Front page
- /about
- /together
- Learning Space
- Added Reasonable Adjustments Possible at School | Autistic Girls Network to Create a Neurodiversity Inclusive Environment and Learning Space as an accordion.
- Added Projects section to Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget with a resonance board howto, broke lists into sections with headings, added more examples.
- Emailed Raygun Customs about adding Map of Monotropic Experiences stickers and posters to our store.
Week 44
- Published Spaces For Multi-Sensory Learners and Those with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities by @HelenE.
- Updated the layout of Neurodiversity, Disability, and Gaming.
- Published Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for October 2024.
- Updated Create a Neurodiversity Inclusive Environment and Learning Space with quotes from “Differing relationships between parenting stress, parenting practices and externalising behaviours in autistic children – Vedanta Suvarna, Lara Farrell, Dawn Adams, Lisa-Marie Emerson, Jessica Paynter, 2024”.
- Added “Behaviorism must go.” section to Learning Space.
- Link to Autistic-Led Organisations in the UK | by Zoe Williams | Medium from Coping.